Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others — and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates.

International health guru Hans Rosling is known worldwide for using animations of global trends to brings statistics to life as he lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world.

Almost 85 percent of mankind are living in countries which are below reproductive level
Hans Rosling

He might be a whiz kid at creating computer software, but beyond that Bill Gates has proven time and again that he hasn’t a clue about why or how freedom works.

He constantly teams up with anti-free market types like the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce “educational programs” in his software packages, misdirecting unsuspecting children with political propaganda. In 2002 he gave the NWF $600,000 worth of software to help these environmental radicals run their programs to block the drilling of American oil. Apparently Gates doesn’t understand that he needs oil to create power to run computers. Most recently his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $3 million to eight universities to reinvent the flush toilet. Environmentalists call that device “one of the world’s most destructive habits.”

Hans Rosling was speaker at the SKAGEN Funds’ New Year’s Conference 2012 – “Poor to Rich – in the G20World”. He is a Swedish Professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute. He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation which promotes a fact-based world view by converting international statistics into moving, interactive graphics. Using animations of global trends Hans Rosling lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world. In 1993 he was one of the initiators of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden.

Hans Rosling explores the demographics of the world, from taxation to population statistics. He highlights the world population broken down by year to prove his point that the countries with the highest number of youth are in the Middle East.

Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His Gapminder presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. In this SVT (Swedish Television) documentary, film maker Pär Fjällström lets Hans Rosling tell the story about his life and what has shaped his world view.

In this animated version of his talk from TEDxChange, Hans Rosling discusses Millennium Development Goal #5: Reduction in child mortality rate of two-thirds by 2015. Dr. Rosling highlights progress happening in Africa and the need to measure each country individually.

Video created by and provided courtesy of TEDxMadrid and BBVA Banca para Todos.

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power thay have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend.

Rosling is a man who revels in the glorious nerdiness of statistics, and here he entertainingly explores their history, how they work mathematically and how they can be used in today’s computer age to see the world as it really is, not just as we imagine it to be.

Rosling’s lectures use huge quantities of public data to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes.

The film also explores cutting-edge examples of statistics in action today. In San Francisco, a new app mashes up police department data with the city’s street map to show what crime is being reported street by street, house by house, in near real-time. Every citizen can use it and the hidden patterns of their city are starkly revealed. Meanwhile, at Google HQ the machine translation project tries to translate between 57 languages, using lots of statistics and no linguists.

Despite its light and witty touch, the film nonetheless has a serious message – without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is. What’s more, Hans concludes, we can now collect and analyse such huge quantities of data and at such speeds that scientific method itself seems to be changing.

Fareed Zakaria interviews several people about where the United States stands ranked in the world today and what it can do as a nation to hold itself near the top. People interviewed include Hans Rosling of gapminder.org, Niall Ferguson and Joseph Nye, Harvard economist, and foursquare.com co-founders, Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai.

Dr. Hans Rosling uses his famous Gapminder data bubble statistics software to unveil a fact-based world view. Using global health data, he demystifies the gap between the so-called developing and developed worlds.

“A fact-based world view”: Intercut version of keynote speech by Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden at Rethinking the digital divide, the 2008 conference of the Association for Learning Technology, on 9 September 2008.

Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing — mostly unreported — piece of front-page-worthy good news: We’re winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.